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When the fruit is eaten, it will be proper to preserve the crowns, 
and any young suckers growing round at the base;* particularly if 
wanted for increase. 
Shifting the Succession Pines. 
The Pine plants which are to fruit in the ensuing season, should 
be shifted, either in the last week of this month, or the first in Au- 
gust, into full sized pots, of about eleven or twelve inches dia- 
meter at top, and ten deep; by doing this so early in the year, 
they will have time to make good roots before spring; for otherwise 
they seldom produce very large fruit. 
Having the pots and new compost ready, take the plants out of 
the bark-bed, and shift them in the following method. 
First, place a shell in the bottom of the new pot, and put in two 
inches deep of fresh compost: then turn the plant out of the old 
pot with the ball entire, and place it immediately into the new; 
fill up round the ball with more of the compost, and let the top 
thereof be covered with it an inch deep. 
In this manner, let the whole be shifted, and immediately watered; 
then plunge them again into the bark-bed. 
Previous to plunging the pots, the bark-bed must first be stirred 
up to the bottom, to revive the declining heat; observing, at the 
same time to add about one third, or at least one fourth, of new tan 
thereto, if the old is much wasted, become earthy, or not likely to 
produce a sufficient degree of bottom heat, to promote the fresh 
rooting and growth of the plants. 
Care of the various Hot-House Plants. 
The general care and propagation of the various exotics of the 
Hot-house department, are the same now, as directed in May and 
June, and therefore unnecessary to be repeated; but it would be 
very proper, at this time, to refresh the earth in the top of the pots 
or tubs, as directed in page 453, and also to shift such of the plants 
as require it. The Hibiscus Rosa Sinensis, Vinca rosea, Plume- 
ria rubra, Allamanda cathartica, Asclepias curassavica, Lantanas, 
Begonias, he. may now be easily propagated by cuttings; and 
where an increase of the various kinds is wanted, that business 
ought not to be delayed to a later period, that the cuttings may have 
time to become well rooted before winter; nor should you despair 
of being able to propagate any kind of tree or shrub by cuttings; 
for, with due care, there are few but maybe increased that way, 
especially, with the assistance of bell-glasses, and a suitable bottom, 
heat. 
* The Brown Antigua, the King, and the Sugar-loaf kinds, commonly pro- 
duce suckers at the top of the stem, immediately under the fruit; but these 
are generally small, and of much less value, than those produced about the 
surface of the earth. 
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